In this course you will
augment your writing skills by producing the kinds of documents that you will
use in your chosen field. The major
project will be a manual written by groups of 2-3 students on a topic of importance
to UCF students and it can be based on material that you have learned in your
respective majors. This report will adopt the layout of a professional document
with appropriate graphics. You will
write a proposal for the manual, and then you will convert your manual into a
website.

You will also practice
applying for a real job in your major that you have found on Monster.com or
some other source by writing a cover letter and a resume. Additionally, you will write a formal
abstract of a scientific article.

11620

ENC5337

Rhetorical Theory

World Wide Web (W)

Not Online

This will be
a course in applying rhetoric to contemporary political speeches and essays.
The text for the course will be Classical
Rhetoric for the Contemporary Student by Hawhee and Crowley, a
neo-Aristotelian text that also draws on the work of the Sophists to present a
more contemporary vision of rhetoric. We will use it to focus on the rhetorical
elements of speeches and essays such as Barack Obama's "race speech"
of 2008, David Foster Wallace's
"Consider the Lobster," Ta-Nehisi Coates "The Case for
Reparations,” Florida writer Joy Williams’ “Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp”
and “The Killing Game,” Mitch Landrieu’s “The Removal
of Confederate Monuments,” Joan Didion’s “Fixed Opinions, or the Hinges of
History,” and Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s “The Coddling of the American
Mind.”

Course Number

Course

Title

Mode

Date and Time

Syllabus

81471

ENC3241

Writing for Technical Prof

World Wide Web (W)

Not Online

No Description Available

81551

ENC4414

Writing and Hypertext

Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M)

Th 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM

Not Online

PR:
Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 3211 or ENC 3241

This course is a restricted elective in the Technical Communication major and
Digital Humanities minor and was designed with humanities students in mind, so if
you haven't had any prior experience with hypertext technology, this is fine.
All majors are welcome. In this course, we will work on our writing skills, our
Web site architecture skills, and our technical coding skills based on CSS and
HTML to produce 1) a personal Web site, and 2) an informational Web site that
you build from a ten-page term paper you write for this course on anything to
do with digital humanities or technical communication. By the end of the
semester, you will be a competent Web site technician and writer and have a
strong theoretical and applied sense of how traditional texts or bodies of
writing can be converted into hypertext documents that you build from scratch.

There will also be some shorter assignments in the course, and we will be
spending a significant amount of time studying theories about information so we
can develop a more critical sensibility regarding hypertext.

The topic for your paper will be on one of the many issues associated with
hypertext such as First Amendment rights, copyright law, gender, community, and
the use of the World Wide Web in business and education. After we have finished
our written projects, you will turn it into a web site that utilizes the
rhetorical advantages of hypertext to their fullest advantage.

80327

LIT4433

Literature of Science and Tech

World Wide Web (W)

Not Online

PR:
Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 1102

In the Literature of Science and Technology, we will examine the
topics of science, technical communication, culture, philosophy, and the
philosophy of language and texts. You will be required to write one ten-page
paper on one of these three texts assigned for the course: White Noise
by Don DeLillo, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert
Pirsig, and The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. This means that
while you will be responsible for reading all three of our texts and doing the
on-line work that is required for each book, you will only be responsible for
writing a paper on one book.

Course Number

Course

Title

Mode

Session

Date and Time

Syllabus

50804

ENC3241

Writing for Technical Prof

World Wide Web (W)

A

Not Online

PR:
Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 1102

The purpose of
this course is to prepare you for a variety of job-related writing tasks.
Success in technical writing, however, requires that you first know for whom
you are writing and why. Consequently, this course will stress audience
awareness and purpose in written communication. The course will also help you
select the appropriate materials for a writing assignment and arrange the
material in a logical and appropriate sequence.

Course Number

Course

Title

Mode

Date and Time

Syllabus

19399

ENC4280

Technical Writing Style

Face to Face Instruction (P)

Tu,Th 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM

Not Online

ENC 4280: Technical Writing Style (Applen)

Spring 2018

This course
provides a better understanding of prose style in general and provides specific
strategies for improving your own writing style, particularly for writing
correspondence (e-mail, letters, and memos), reports, proposals, instructions
(for example, tutorials, manuals, and reference), and policies and procedures
as well as for writing various online genres—websites, blogs, e-zines, online
help and more.

Objectives include
learning:

·
Learn how
style and technical writing style may be defined.

·
Study what
the relationships are between style (your manner of expression in your prose)
and rhetoric (the art of persuasion).

·
Learn how
prose styles depend on the rhetorical situation and are influenced by different
discourse communities.

·
Explore how
prose styles range from plain styles to complex styles to unnecessarily complex
styles and how to choose what is most appropriate.

·
Learn what
general diction problems technical writers share with all other writers.

·
Review what
challenges are presented by specialized language and how to deal with these
challenges.

·
Learn how
to write more effective technical sentences, paragraphs and larger segments.

·
Learn how
to establish a wide range of tones, including humor, in writing.

·
Review how
bias is defined and how it influences writing style.

·
Study what
some of major style issues are concerning gender and ethics.

·
Learn how
to edit for problems in prose style.

·
Learn what
resources are available either in print or online for improving prose,
including a variety of style guides.

Requirements
include weekly readings, discussions of and quizzes on the reading, a style
analysis and memo, and a research paper on a prose style topic.

19405

ENC6425

Hypertext Theory and Design

World Wide Web (W)

Not Online

We will study media
theory, writing, and CSS and HTML. You will do a term paper, a
personal Web site, and an informational Web site built on the information from
your term paper. We will also have some online discussions and quizzes. The text will be Writing for the Web: Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web
Sites.

While this course
is a restricted elective in the Technical Communication track, everyone in
English and DWR can enroll in it. You do not need any previous coding skills to
take this course; it has been designed with humanities majors in mind.

Course Number

Course

Title

Mode

Date and Time

Syllabus

81311

ENC3241

Writing for Technical Prof

World Wide Web (W)

Not Online

No Description Available

81814

ENC4414

Writing and Hypertext

Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M)

Th 04:30 PM - 05:45 PM

Not Online

ENC 4414.0M01: Writing and Hypertext
(Applen)

PR: Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 3211 or ENC 3241

This course is a restricted elective in the Technical Communication major and Digital Humanities minor and was designed with humanities students in mind, so if you haven't had any prior experience with hypertext technology, this is fine. All majors are welcome. In this course, we will work on our writing skills, our Web site architecture skills, and our technical coding skills based on CSS and HTML to produce 1) a personal Web site, and 2) an informational Web site that you build from a ten-page term paper you write for this course on anything to do with digital humanities or technical communication. By the end of the semester, you will be a competent Web site technician and writer and have a strong theoretical and applied sense of how traditional texts or bodies of writing can be converted into hypertext documents that you build from scratch.

There will also be some shorter assignments in the course, and we will be spending a significant amount of time studying theories about information so we can develop a more critical sensibility regarding hypertext.

The topic for your paper will be on one of the many issues associated with hypertext such as First Amendment rights, copyright law, gender, community, and the use of the World Wide Web in business and education. After we have finished our written projects, you will turn it into a web site that utilizes the rhetorical advantages of hypertext to their fullest advantage.

80356

LIT4433

Literature of Science and Tech

World Wide Web (W)

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Not Online

LIT4433.0W61: Literature of Science and Technology
(Applen)

PR: Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENC 1102

In the Literature of Science and Technology, we will examine the topics of science, technical communication, culture, philosophy, and the philosophy of language and texts. You will be required to write one ten-page paper on one of these three texts assigned for the course: White Noise by Don DeLillo, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and The Double Helix (Norton Edition) by James Watson. This means that while you will be responsible for reading all three of our texts and doing the on-line work that is required for each book, you will only be responsible for writing a paper on one book.